2019-12-01_Harper__x27_s_Bazaar_Australia_UserUpload.Net

PRICES APPROXIMATE

... Devour reads

about some

of music’s

biggest names?

Threemusic-

relatedtomesworthy

ofyoursummer

reading hours

Bowie’sBooks:TheHundredLiterary

HeroesWhoChangedHisLifeby

John O’Connell (Bloomsbury, $35)

TheBeautifulOnes

byPrince

(Penguin, $50)

I’ll BeYourMirror:The

CollectedLyricsbyLou

Reed (Faber, $50)

BOOKS

Year3,buthermotherfeltthatwasextreme.)“Which

has beenthestory ofher educationallife,”Kerisays,

“putting herinsituationswhereit’slike,‘Letmejust

prefacethis:she’shighlyintellectuallymotivated.’”

Yarais currentlyreadingTheAutobiographyof Malcolm

XandhasjustfinishedElizabethHinton’sFromtheWar

on Poverty totheWaronCrime: TheMakingof Mass

IncarcerationinAmerica. “It’sbeena constant,strangely,

of people wanting us to prove a level of intellectual

capability,”Keri says,inawe ofher daughter.“We’ve

evenseenit ininterviews,wherepeoplemaythinkshe

hasplannedanswers.Butif you’rearoundYaraformore

thananhouryou’llsee,shewillbelike,‘Ohmygosh,I

readVoltaireandit remindsmeofthissongfromFrank

Ocean.’”Thetwostartgiggling;evenQ,a familyfriend

sittingnearby,sentinel-like, chuckles knowingly.

Mission-ish

It becomesclearthatYara’sactivismis rootedinbeing

opentotheexperiencesofothers,ratherthaninhubris,

asis thecase withsome well-intentionedpeoplewho

just wantto proselytisefortheiragenda.“Ithinkit’s

normal now to be on the cusp of many different

emergingidentities,whichmakesit moreimportantnot

onlytoadvocateforthethingsyou’refamiliarwith,but

tointentionallyeducateyourselfandexpand,”shesays.

Expansionis yetanotherthingatwhichYaraexcels.

Indeed,sheseemstodoit inrealtime,asshechooses

organisations to work with, such asthe Third Wave

Fund,a genderjusticeorganisationledbypeopleunder

35 that her family’s foundation has supported. The

family discusses almosteverything and has since the

childrenwereyoung.“Theexchangeis backandforth,”

Keri says. “There is no hierarchy of information

exchange.”Yara’sparentsalsogot thekidsinvolvedin

their ownfinances. “Irememberwhenwe

first got an investment banker, he would

meet with me and my brother at 10 and

seven,”shesays,laughing.SheturnstoKeri:

“I thinkfromthetimeI gotmyfirstcheque,

you said, ‘You have three jars: you have

saving, you have spending and you have

donating.Whatdoyouwanttoputineach

jar?’Soit’salreadykindofinfrastructurally

set up — you get, and then you give some.”

“Ithinkit’snormal

nowtobeonthe

cuspofmany

differentemerging

identities.”

YaraShahidiwears

Oscardela Rentadress;

Cartierearringsand

ring.Oppositepage:

MichaelKorsCollection

bodysuitandskirt;

Cartier ring.

CULTURE